"... Powell.
My vision changes and I call out to the mass of light in front of me. It was Powell. He held both knees on the spot, his face bowed down and he was small and stiff.
The light has become terribly unstable, flashing and shaking, and still beeping around.
"Philip...! Safe, was...
Face up and breathe like a heartfelt relief. Tears on my eyeballs are vibrating jizzily and evaporating repeatedly.
"Sorry... corner, you saved me, but I... Like you, to the kid...
Perhaps Powell and I aren't that old. But he seemed to mourn the fact that he had even unleashed an attack on me as he was now eleven years old. Don't worry, I'll walk over to him again with that said.
"Powell, we're leaving. to the kingdom of Friesia.
Powell shook his shoulder at my words and was staring at me again from his raised face. How many times do I have to tell you? That's the way I look at you.
... Me too, I guess I used to look at Pride like this.
Second, I remember seven years ago. It was the night I first met Pride.
One of them was getting smaller on the bed. To me. She lay her words over me many times. You noticed my sadness. How much I would have been saved then.
"Oh, I don't want to be so special."
I resented you, too.
From the day I was separated from my mother, I resented and cursed that I was born with this special ability.
He has also suffered, I'm sure, because of that special ability he was born with. Regardless of his will, I'm sure the environment didn't allow him to be "normal."
The pain sounded like stabbing my skin at a point about a meter from Bachi and Powell. Once I stopped my leg, I heard a voice from Powell's mouth saying, "Don't come."
Yes, I still refused to speak of pride at the bottom of my heart then, too.
"Don't worry, I'll just put you back in the country. I'm not going to lock you up anywhere, or brighten up what was being captured here.
In addition, the light becomes stronger in my words. Same as just now. His abilities are rampant in proportion to his upset.
"Powell. I'm sure the kingdom of Friesia will be a hard place to live for you right now.
I know. My country is still incomplete. Where we have deepened our friendship with neighbouring and neighbouring countries, we have not yet fully understood the special abilities either. If you want to borrow Val's word, we're all special abilities. Besides, the victims of human trafficking are thus still being spilled out of the country. Even with that Jill Veil arm. And human poverty at lower levels has not been solved either. Over the past two years, most countries have had information management, security, and reign under the Jilbel bill, but still, the problems are piling up. But...
"But just wait a little longer. In a few more years, Friesia will make it easier for you to live than anywhere in the world.
"Why can you say all that... ⁉ *"
He stared at me abominably, his emotions high, and his surroundings burst with bees again. But I don't move. I say, "I don't know." And breathe in as you go and say it clearly toward him.
"In the kingdom of Friesia there is the First Princess of Pride.
Powell opens his eyes to my words. It's a face that doesn't know what you're talking about. Instead, however, the bursting noise earlier subsided.
"The First Princess of Pride... when she becomes queen,... no, I'm sure the country is changing when she becomes queen. Better than now, always in the right direction.
Just one step, take it to him. I felt a burning heat on my billy and fingertips but I wouldn't hesitate.
Pride asked Val four years ago. whether you want a contract of servitude or an execution.
When I heard that story from Tiara, I didn't know why Pride asked me that. And finally, I said it when I liberated Val. He told me to come to him when I needed help. And now, four years later... Pride is throwing himself into danger again to save Val. Prisoned children and the people aside, I didn't know why I would do such a thing for that sinner… it was worth it.
But now.
'Just hoping to stay alive! What's wrong?
'... because when you die, it's all over.
Now I know.
That's why Pride reached out to Val.
Even if you hurt someone in the meantime until he gets here.
Even if, for example, you neglected and hated our country.
He was born in the same land as us, bleeding the same!
Just one more time, if you can give me a chance to be happy.
Like her, I won't hesitate to grab this hand of his.
My arm, it's hot. If you reach for the blinding Powell, your arms will burn and burn and your body will cramp. I'm dazzled and my eyes are crushing. Still, reach out a little more and grab his glowing arm. Surprised at me for grabbing him and opening his mouth to say something, I look straight in the eye.
"It's a place to go home."
I remember his words I mourned so much. He said there was no place to go home. Then I dare say this.
"If it's a place to go, there's a..."
I tolerate pain and fever, and instead of screaming, I raise my voice to him. I could see him squeezing his mouth in my words.
"The kingdom of Friesia! Our country is where you will return.
Bees and ear sounds annoying. Don't let that sound block you from even shouting.
"... is that true...?
Second, a voice that's going to disappear gets in my ear. I feel that the amount of light and heat have largely stopped without my heart. I stare at him as he draws the burning pain.
He blushes with tears and turns his distorted face towards me so that I can enjoy it.
I know this look very well. This look of despair and a glimmer of hope.
'Oh... I can protect you... I... what the hell...
Arthur.
My best friend. Just like me, a man saved by pride. And sometimes you saved me, dear friend.
"Oh, my God."
I'm even more vocal. Do you have thin oxygen, shortness of breath and a headache? I stare at him strongly, and I hold his arm with strength in my hand.
If I can save him again, like the pride of that time!
"That's why I'm here."
If you can lighten that heart with one word, like Arthur did back then...
"Wait in our country until the Pop Ride is queen, Powell. If you still mourn that you have no place in our country."
Hold your breath and look up at me to Powell. I squeeze my last strength. Yes, if even that pride couldn't save him then! When Pride became queen, I became regent.
I'll find you a place.
All of a sudden his body glowed hard. The next moment I took my breath to see if I was going to storm again.
... the light stopped.
As hot as that was, his arm made a noise with the shush and the heat pulled off. The light emanating from him flashes slowly, and he looks up at me without blinking one.
Somehow, I feel easier to breathe than I just did. With a slightly scorched arm breathing on his shoulders, he can help keep his hands away from his arms.
He didn't say anything for a while. He was even staring at me to make sure, to think about the sincerity of my words. And when I was forced to go through oxygen in my body, he finally opened that mouth.
"... why... to me, that much... Me, ha...
That being said, once he glanced terribly at him as he remembered something and ate his teeth spicy.
... Oh,... I know this look, too.
Jill veil.
The look on his face when he confessed his sins to Pride.... It's natural for Powell to be confused. I just met him, and he's almost the only one who's attacked me. But if that's why they ask.
"... because I know. Someone who can still save and reach out to you, regardless of your identity, your betrayal, your guilt or all your priors.
I accidentally try to touch the edge of my glasses and realize I'm not wearing them right now.
"I'm the same person who was.
I took my hand off his arm once and reached out in front of him again. He followed every move of my hand with his eyes, and at the end he stared at the palm of his hand.
"If you go back to my country, you'll be able to see that guy one day, too.
He slowly lifts his hand. And he lay his hands on me of his own accord. Tears came from his eyes as they remained open and now his cheeks without evaporation.
'Something that must be a people of my beloved country.
'Cause he's still my beloved citizen.
As I take that hand, I remember the words of Fuji Pride. Val, the sinner whom she had judged, and even Jilbert, who had betrayed her country, in those words she loved and had mercy. When I realized, I opened my mouth to Powell again.
"You, too, are our beloved people.
The words were zero, and Powell's eyes looking up at me were so open that there was no more. The amount of tears that transmit the cheeks increases, and it is further overflowing from its eyes.
"I promise you. Special abilities make sure that you and your loved ones can all laugh without hurting you.... mine, for life's sake.
The moment my eyes, left open, changed color in amazement, and that mouth tried to ask me again what the words intended.
By instant travel he disappeared.
Not to the Knights, out of my familiar town. You'll be safe there, and I'm sure your heart will calm down.
Sit on the spot weakened at once. Did you burn your arm or it hurt a little, but maybe you'll be fine. This much will leave no marks if you are treated by a healing special abilities person.
"... to even...... I didn't expect to borrow the word of pride until the end...
Exhaling a long sigh like Arthur, one hand accidentally floats to where the edge of the glasses was again, holding his head gently as he was embarrassed.
'I promise... I will never hurt you any more...' you and this country with your mother will make everyone laugh...! Mine, as long as I have life... "
Pride gave me that promise, and it's been seven years.
It's a word I never forgot. That's what you swore to me, a common man who hasn't even been royal yet.
Until now, for the sake of pride, for pride to be queen. To protect the heart of pride. and kept learning, and just for that reason I kept polishing him as the next Regent.
But now I think. For a people like him who was hurting and grieving where I didn't know.
Before I met Pride, I wanted to dedicate myself as Regent for people like me, Arthur,... Gilbert and Val, people like Powell.
In our country, where pride is built to be queen, for her and for the people.
Just like she promised me that day.
"... for the sake of... we need to get to Pride soon...
I can put my strength on my feet to stand up to dust my body before it moves momentarily.
... As soon as possible, my vision darkened. It's not instantaneous travel. My own consciousness was starting to break.
- Shit...
I thought so. Especially since it was already too late.
Unlike the white blink I just had, my vision is painted black.
- Pride... Come on, we have to go... Wait for me... her...
Fall into a narrow rock-walled space to collapse as it is.
The feel of the rock was on my cheek, and the world was falling directly beside me if I thought my vision was clear for a moment. Yeah, I think it was me and everybody who fell.
- As planned, we have to...... to protect your pride.
"... pride..."
At the end of the day, my voice was lowered.
Oh, again. Also, I swore I'd protect her. I'm... here.
- No... no... no...
At the same time the lid was closed, I remembered and had zero strange and out of place grins. And that's the last thing.
-... it's... mine, not...
I let go of consciousness.